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ER doc faces drunken driving charges after wild Wellesley crash

Published On: Nov 14 2012 10:07:42 AM EST

WELLESLEY, Mass. -

An emergency room doctor was arrested Friday on drunken driving charges after she crashed her vehicle into a grocery store van in Wellesley, smashed into a fence on the store's property and struck another car.

Kristin Howard, 56, was in the parking lot of the Whole Foods Market on Washington Street at about 8:45 a.m. when she struck the van. Police said Howard then reversed and hit a fence, reversed again and hit the fence again.

Howard then then accelerated across the parking lot, striking a granite post, police said. Her car became airborne and sideswiped a large tree before exiting the parking area.

Howard then struck a Mercury Marquis that was in the northbound lane on State Street, pushing the Mercury into the southbound lane and into a dump truck and trailer, police said.

The driver of the Marquis, 78-year-old Paul McDonald of Wellesley, suffered injuries and was taken to a local hospital. "Out of nowhere, I got hammered, and I thought it was the end of the world. I thought a bomb went off inside the car. And then I had the feeling the roof was collapsing and I said, 'Oh, what a way to go.'" McDonald said he suffered two cracked ribs.

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